White Train

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During the height of the Cold War, the White Train worked out of the Pantex plant in the Oklahoma panhandle. This train moved nuclear weapons from the plant where they were constructed to numerous sites to support the US nuclear program. From 1951 to 1987 The Department of Energy’s Office of Secure Transportation (OST) moved the weapons by rail before moving them to safe-secure transports for travel by road. http://www.mbe.doe.gov/me70/history/August06.pdf] The train became the focus for peace and anti-nuclear weapon activism in the west.[1] While the train's color was changed numerous times to avoid notice, it continued to be referred to by its original color. After a the last attempt to prosecute protesters who blocked the passage of the train failed the Department of Energy moved such weapons by truck without public notice.[2]